gmail & googlemail

[DaveP]

How can I register an email address for myself with google & get a @gmail.com address rather than @googlemail.com

Cheers

 

[cojak]

Starting October 19, 2005, the Gmail service will be renamed Google Mail in the UK. We will no longer issue new @gmail.com addresses.

Apparently they had a fight with another company over the Gmail name in the UK.

So I guess the the answer is "you can't" unless you live outside the UK...

 

[miffy]

You can't and it doesn't matter.

The domains gmail and googlemail both route to the same destination anyway.

So you can either mail to yourname@googlemail.com or yourname@gmail.com and it will arrive in the same inbox.

Signup and see for yourself.

HTH

 

[DaveP]

but doing this I believe you can only send from googlemail & not gmail.

 

[interested]

1) Go somewhere foreign and sign up
2) Get someone in another country to sign you up
3) Do it through a proxy server in another country

HTH

 

[miffy]

but doing this I believe you can only send from googlemail & not gmail.

Ah yes, I'm sure that will be the case. Your "send as" address will be fixed to googlemail. Is a gmail domain really that prestigious to you though?

Why not get your own domain for the few quid a year it costs.

 

[meridian]

I've just opened a new gmail account this morning when registering at http://pages.google.com, but then I live in Ireland so they'll show my ip address as being outside of the UK.

 

[Moscow Mule]

Ah yes, I'm sure that will be the case. Your "send as" address will be fixed to googlemail. Is a gmail domain really that prestigious to you though?

No it won't.

When you set up your mail client, if you set the username to xxx@gmail.com mail will be sent from that address.

You can also set up your gmail to use a personal domain if you're so inclined.